| ID | 127313 |
| Title Proper | Snowden revelations |
| Other Title Information | myths and misapprehensions |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Inkster, Nigel |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The stream of revelations about US communications-intercept operations deriving from material purloined from the National Security Agency (NSA) by rogue contractor Edward Snowden has aroused strong emotions in a variety of constituencies. Civil-liberties groups concerned with issues of personal freedom and data privacy have expressed alarm about the pervasive nature of the NSA's bulk data collection. States that have been shown to have collaborated with the organisation in such collection have been embarrassed. And countries that considered themselves to have friendly relations with the United States but were the subject of its covert intelligence collection have reacted with varying degrees of outrage. Some of this outrage has been real, but much of it is manufactured for either domestic political reasons or in the hope of leveraging some policy advantage from the discomfiture of the US and its allies. The major US technology companies and service providers which have to varying degrees collaborated with the NSA, either voluntarily or in response to judicial warrants, have experienced a decline in customer trust, with uncertain but potentially significant implications for their future business prospects. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol.56, No.1; Feb-Mar 2014: p.51-60 |
| Journal Source | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol.56, No.1; Feb-Mar 2014: p.51-60 |
| Key Words | United States - US ; United Kingdom - UK ; Intelligence ; Counter Terrorism ; International Law ; Americas ; International Politics ; International Relations ; International Organization - IO ; International Cooperation ; Foreign Policy - US ; Bilateral Relations |